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Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Postcard - Photograph, Shire of Nillumbik, Yarra River, southern boundary of the Shire of Nillumbik, c.2010
... Yarra River, southern boundary of the Shire of Nillumbik...Shire of Nillumbik ...Nillumbik Shire Council c.2010 Arts Environment Heritagepostcard, birrarung, shire of nillumbik, yarra river -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers, Transactions of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers, Volume X, 1905, 1905
... Transactions of the Australasian Institute of Mining...Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers ...Fabric covered hardcovered book of 367 pages. Includes a number of pullout plans. Contents * Mount Lyell Mining Field Tasmania by Professor J.W. Gregory * Concentration of solver-led ores (with 6 plates) by V.F. Stanley Low * Phosphate Deposites of Ocean and Pleasnt Islands (with 15 plates) by F. Danvers Power * Coal and Coal Mining in New SoPleassant Isuth Wales by Thomas Parton * Method of TImbering at the Mount Rex Tin Mne, Ben Lomand, Tasmania by Mark Ireland * Peck's Centrifugal Elevator by W. Peck * A Portable Assay Furnace by J.J. Gillio * NOtes on Sampling by A.C. Thomas * The Career of the Gold Dredge i n New South Wales by David K. Blair * The Transmission of Power by COmpressed Air in Mines by R.W. Chapman * The Misplacement of Mning Shafts and Adits in Victoria (with 7 figures) * The Indicators of the Daylesford Gold Mines, Victoria * Mining Accounts by R.N. Kirknon-fictionausimm, a.s. kenyon, frank a. moss, mount lyell, j.w. gregory, coal, gold dredge, transmission of power, mining shaft audits, daylesford gold mines, spitzkastens, ocean island banaba, pleasant island nauru, pinnacles on flat reef pleasant island, ocean island, blow hole howe bay, rock phosphate, thomas parton, mark ireland, mount rex tin mine, ngapara dredge, w. peck, w.h. vale, daylesford, jim crow diggings, glenmona gmc, f. danvers power, leigh g. hancock, workers' industrial union of australia (barrier district) -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Ballarat School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat, School of Mines and Industries minutes if the Board of Studies, Assets Committee, Staffing Committee and Special Working Committee 1976-79, 01/07/1976
... School of Mines and Industries minutes if the Board of...Ballarat School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat ...School of Mines Ballarat is a predecessor of Federation University This book is an minutes book of the School of Mines 1970's giving us an understanding of the operations of the School of Mines in that era and of the people involved with the institution at that time. It shows projects that were being undertaken at the institution at the time and gives us an historical perspective on project costs and the type of work being doneLarge dark red book with gold lettering on the front cover Staffing, Boardof Studies, Special Working party in black marker on the spine school of mines ballarat, board of studies, assets committee, special working party, staffing committee, w.j.c north, e.j tippett, m.b john, g.h beanland, s.a mendelson, k.j flecknoe, p. shiells, a. smail, j. crowe, r. hazlett, b. webber, d.drake, r. morgan, j. bell, l. shannon, a. peart, e.j barker, r.t morrell, k. andrews, r. dobell, l.f hillman, b. muir, r.mcfarlane -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Ballarat School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat, School of Mines and Industries minutes if the Board of Studies, Assets Committee, Staffing Committee and Special Working Committee 1980-1983, 01/07/1976
... School of Mines and Industries minutes if the Board of...Ballarat School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat ...School of Mines Ballarat is a predecessor of Federation University This book is an minutes book of the School of Mines 1970's giving us an understanding of the operations of the School of Mines in that era and of the people involved with the institution at that time. It shows projects that were being undertaken at the institution at the time and gives us an historical perspective on project costs and the type of work being doneLarge dark red book with gold lettering on the front cover and blue spineBoard of Studies and Staffing Committee on orange labels on the spineschool of mines ballarat, board of studies, assets committee, special working party, staffing committee, w.j.c north, e.j tippett, m.b john, g.h beanland, s.a mendelson, k.j flecknoe, p. shiells, a. smail, j. crowe, r. hazlett, b. webber, d.drake, r. morgan, j. bell, l. shannon, a. peart, e.j barker, r.t morrell, k. andrews, r. dobell, l.f hillman, b. muir, r.mcfarlane, j. van dreven, m johnson, r.c lovett, m.c palmer, b. staley, j.l. turner, i aitken, l elliot, a.c byvoet, l wallis, r.h. hollioake, j. short -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Ballarat School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat, School of Mines and Industries minutes if the Board of Studies, Assets Committee, Staffing Committee and Special Working Committee 1983-1985, 01/07/1976
... School of Mines and Industries minutes if the Board of...Ballarat School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat ...School of Mines Ballarat is a predecessor of Federation University This book is an minutes book of the School of Mines 1980's giving us an understanding of the operations of the School of Mines in that era and of the people involved with the institution at that time. It shows projects that were being undertaken at the institution at the time and gives us an historical perspective on project costs and the type of work being doneLarge dark red book with gold lettering on the front coverBoard of Studies and Staffing Committee on black label on the spineschool of mines ballarat, board of studies, assets committee, special working party, staffing committee, w.j.c north, e.j tippett, m.b john, g.h beanland, s.a mendelson, k.j flecknoe, p. shiells, a. smail, j. crowe, r. hazlett, b. webber, d.drake, r. morgan, j. bell, l. shannon, a. peart, e.j barker, r.t morrell, k. andrews, r. dobell, l.f hillman, b. muir, r.mcfarlane, j. van dreven, m johnson, r.c lovett, m.c palmer, b. staley, j.l. turner, i aitken, l elliot, a.c byvoet, l wallis, r.h. hollioake, j. short, i.w pym, t.a wiseman, l. condon, n. mroczkowski, a.g peart, m. vallance, j. sullivan, b.c mclennan, m. hutchings -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Ballarat School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat, School of Mines and Industries minutes if the Board of Studies and Legislation and Constitution Committee 1988-1990, 01/07/1976
... School of Mines and Industries minutes if the Board of...Ballarat School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat ...School of Mines Ballarat is a predecessor of Federation University This book is an minutes book of the School of Mines 1980's giving us an understanding of the operations of the School of Mines in that era and of the people involved with the institution at that time. It shows projects that were being undertaken at the institution at the time and gives us an historical perspective on project costs and the type of work being doneLarge green book with black spine and handwritten label on spineBoard of Studies and Legislation/Constitution on spine labelschool of mines ballarat, board of studies, assets committee, special working party, staffing committee, w.j.c north, e.j tippett, m.b john, g.h beanland, s.a mendelson, k.j flecknoe, p. shiells, a. smail, j. crowe, r. hazlett, b. webber, d.drake, r. morgan, j. bell, l. shannon, a. peart, e.j barker, r.t morrell, k. andrews, r. dobell, l.f hillman, b. muir, r.mcfarlane, j. van dreven, m johnson, r.c lovett, m.c palmer, b. staley, j.l. turner, i aitken, l elliot, a.c byvoet, l wallis, r.h. hollioake, j. short, n. stevens, k. boast, j annesley -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Ballarat School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat, School of Mines and Industries minutes if the Board of Studies and Legislation and Constitution Committee 1988-1990, 01/07/1976
... School of Mines and Industries minutes if the Board of...Ballarat School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat ...School of Mines Ballarat is a predecessor of Federation University This book is an minutes book of the School of Mines 1980's giving us an understanding of the operations of the School of Mines in that era and of the people involved with the institution at that time. It shows projects that were being undertaken at the institution at the time and gives us an historical perspective on project costs and the type of work being doneLarge red book with gold lettering on the front cover.school of mines ballarat, board of studies, assets committee, special working party, staffing committee, w.j.c north, e.j tippett, m.b john, g.h beanland, s.a mendelson, k.j flecknoe, p. shiells, a. smail, j. crowe, r. hazlett, b. webber, d.drake, r. morgan, j. bell, l. shannon, a. peart, e.j barker, r.t morrell, k. andrews, r. dobell, l.f hillman, b. muir, r.mcfarlane, j. van dreven, m johnson, r.c lovett, m.c palmer, b. staley, j.l. turner, i aitken, l elliot, a.c byvoet, l wallis, r.h. hollioake, j. short, n. stevens, k. boast, j annesley -
Greensborough Historical Society
Booklet, City of Whittlesea, Eucalypts of the City of Whittlesea, 2015c
... Eucalypts of the City of Whittlesea...City of Whittlesea ...30 p. booklet, stapled, colour illustrationseucalypts, native flora, whittlesea -
Greensborough Historical Society
Booklet, Shire of Corio, A Brief history of the Shire of Corio, 1980s
... A Brief history of the Shire of Corio...Shire of Corio ...History of Shire of Corio, a local government area between Geelong and Werribee. The Shire included all of Geelong's northern suburbs and existed from 1861 to 1993.12 p., printed in green on white paper, photographs, stapled.geelong, shire of corio, werribee -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newspaper - Newsletter, Shire of Diamond Valley, Valley Views: Newsletter of the Shire of Diamond Valley. March/April 1993, 1993_03
... Valley Views: Newsletter of the Shire of Diamond Valley...Shire of Diamond Valley ...Local news from the Shire of Diamond Valley 1993. Includes plans for a swimming pool for the Civic area; extension to the Diamond Valley Library; extended hours for Maternal and Child Health centres; entertainment in the Shire; radio station Plenty Valley fm; and, treatment for headlice.Newspaper, 8p., green and black text, black and white images. 2 copiesshire of diamond valley, swimming pools greensborough, diamond valley library, plenty valley fm -
Greensborough Historical Society
Article, Shire of Diamond Valley, A brief history of the Shire of Diamond Valley by Irene Turvey, 1837o
... A brief history of the Shire of Diamond Valley by Irene...Shire of Diamond Valley ...This brief history discusses the Shire of Diamond Valley. The Shire of Diamond Valley was a Local Government Area located about 20 kilometres northeast of Melbourne. The shire covered an area of 74.38 square kilometres and existed from 1964 until 1994.This article includes some images of early building in the Shire of Diamond Valley.Photocopied article. 4 pages text and illus.On front page "from Rosie Bray"shire of diamond valley, irene turvey -
Greensborough Historical Society
Book, Macmillan Company of Australia, A century of compassion: a history of the Austin Hospital; by E. W. Gault and Alan Lucas, 1982_
... A century of compassion: a history of the Austin Hospital...Macmillan Company of Australia ...This is the official centenary history of the Austin Hospital in Heidelberg. A detailed history of the Austin Hospital with access to many early photographs of the hospital buildings.378 pages, black and white illustrations. Hard cover.austin hospital, heidelberg -
Greensborough Historical Society
Article, Irene Turvey, A Brief history of the Shire of Diamond Valley, compiled by Irene Turvey, 1835o
... A Brief history of the Shire of Diamond Valley, compiled by...Shire of Diamond Valley ...Compiled by Irene Turvey, this brief history of the Shire of Diamond Valley is based on "The Diamond Valley Story" by Diane Edwards (published 1979), and includes photographs from the book.4 photocopied pages, text and photographsshire of diamond valley, diamond valley story -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Booklet, 4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment, Being a Brief Illustrated History of the 4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse, July 1971
... Being a Brief Illustrated History of the 4th/19th Prince of...4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment ...Spirex bound A4 booklet, clear plastic coverDefence Regional Library stamps./4/19 pwlh, history -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Book - Reference S.E.C. History x4, Brown Power A Jubilee History of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, first published 1969
... Brown Power A Jubilee History of the State Electricity...Cecil Edwards, State Electricity Commission of Victoria ...Although this book revolves around the supply of power(Electricity) from brown coal it does cover the period 1937 onwards when the Kiewa Hydro Electricity Scheme was first mooted. This area was believed to be far away from aerial bombardment should the coastal power stations be attacked by air in World War II(1939 -1945). After the war, post 1945, the demand for a continual power supply, not affected by seasonal coastal flooding was together with a lower cost of hydro electricity power the major incentive for the Victoria Government of the day to proceed (in the 1940s) with The Kiewa Hydro Electricity Scheme. In 1946 Victorian government sought greater independence from the New South Wales black coal supplies.The significance of this book to the Kiewa Valley and its outlying regions is that it details why the development of an Alpine region was and now still is pocketed with a European flavour both in buildings and in town vegetation(trees and flowers). European (post World War II refugees) where attracted to these alpine areas not only for hard labouring positions but also for their technical skills and some street names offer a distinct European lineage rather than convict or of earlier English settler. The construction phase accommodation continued after completion of the Kiewa Hydro Electricity Scheme to become popular venues for an increasing winter tourism industry. This book has a brown hard cover encapsulated by a cream sleeve with brown and black print. On the front of the sleeve is an embossed circular motif with centre piece S.E.C. emblem and around this the words "50 YEARS OF SERVICE" and below this" STATE ELECTRICITY COMMISSION OF VICTORIA". The book contains 313 double sided pages of black print and black and white photographs.On front of paper sleeve "Brown Power A Jubilee History of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria Cecil Edwards". On the second page, below the Title "Brown Power" there is a pasted, printed presentation certificate, with the S.E.C. emblem and these printed words " Presented by the Chairman and Commissioners to A.G. MILLIST, ESQ. in recognition of long and valued service with the Commission"electricity, victorian power supplies, hydro electricity, brown coal, cecil edwards -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Award, Framed award to Miss Marianne Thomson, Postmistress, signed and presented by the citizens of Ringwood on her retirement after thirty years of service, 1st August, 1913, 1/08/1913
... and presented by the citizens of Ringwood on her retirement...Citizens of Ringwood ...Token presented to the postmistress Miss Marianne Thomson from the citizens of Ringwood, 1st August 1913.Presentation to postmistress Miss Marianne Thomson, signed by the citizens of Ringwood on 1st August 1913. +Additional Keywords: Citizens of RingwoodThis token of Our esteem is presented to You by the Undermentioned Citizens of Ringwood on Your retirement from the position of Postmistress after thirty Years Honourable Service. We take this Opportunity of thanking You for Your very many Acts of Kindness and Courtesy. And in conclusion trusting that You will be long spared to enjoy the Rest You have so faithfully earned. We have the privilege of Subscribing Ourselves. Yours very Sincerely, 1st August 1913. A.J.B.Aird, J.G.Aird, W.Aitken, J.C.Allan, H.E.B.Armstrong, L.F.Armstrong, A.D.Anderson, G.Anderson, M.Anderson, O.Anderson, T.Anderson, F.Baker, Bamford Bros, J.W.Barrett, E.Baxter, J.Bienvenu, A.Blood, G.Blood, H.Blood, I.Blood, S.Blood, W.J.Blood, L.Brakewell, G.Bray, G.T.Bruce, Mrs.Bruce, T.Burrows, W.H.Chamberlain, A.Chivers, R.E.Clarke, F.Clayton, J.Cooper, J.Cornelt, W.J.Craig, M.A.Crusswell, W.Cutts, Mrs W.Cutts, A.Daniel, F.Daniel, G.G.Davey, E.Davis, O.Delaney, M.Dickson, E.J.Evans, H.L.Falconer, N.Falconer, T.Falconer, T.S.Falconer, J.C.Fitzpatrick, P.Fitzpatrick, Mr.Geraghty, Mrs.Geraghty, H.Gerlach, A.Gowty, M.A.Grant, T.Grant J.P, M.R.Grant, A.E.Grant, T.W.Grant, A.D.Guthrie, H.Hamilton, C.Hams, A.Hann, E.Hann, Mrs.E.Hann, E.L.Hann, J.Hann, Harding, K.Henriques, J.Higginson, J.Hill, W.Hill, W.Hone, G.B.Howship, P.Howship, H.C.Howship, S.J.Kennedy, E.Keogh, J.P.Kiernan, A.King, Mrs.A.King, A.Kleinert, J.Knox Jr., T.Knox, H.C.Jones, J.Jones, T.H.Justice, W.N.Lamont, A.T.Langley, Mrs.Langley, F.D.Laurie, R.C.Layton, L.Leadbeater, A.Lindsay, J.Lothian, A.Loughnan, B.Mackinlay, E.Mackinlay, H.Mackinlay, W.Mackinlay, W.R.Mackinlay, C.L.Madden, N.Madden, J.J.Maggs, Miss.D.Maggs, A.Matthews, A.H.Miles, A.T.Miles, L.C.Miles, C.E.Miles, R.F.Miles, S.D.Miles, W.E.Miles, C.Mills, E.A.Milne, E.Molloy, J.Muldowney, M.Murphy, B.B.McAlpin, J.B.McAlpin, E.M.McDermott, W.McEwan, J.McGillivray, M.McGillivray, I.McLean, M.McGillivray, Miss McNamara, B.McSweeney, E.Parker, J.Parker, J.T.Pickett, E.Pollard, F.R.Pollard, H.Pollard, D.Porteus, OJ.Pratt, Mrs.OJ.Pratt, V.Rooney, V.T.Rooney, E.Russell, S.Scales, W.Smith, W.G.Smith, H.Stephenson, A.Stowell, R.Sutherland, Mrs.R.Sutherland, T.D.Thorne, J.Trainor, S.Unsworth, Miss.Unsworth, C.E.Walden, A.E.Walker, C.Wedge, G.T.Wiggin, E.White, J.M.White, F.Wilkins, J.Wilkins, R.G.Wilkins, E.Williams, C.R.Williams, L.Williams, P.G.Williams, T.V.Williams, W.G.Williams, W.S.Williams, Mrs.W.S.Williams, W.S.Williams Jr., D.Wright, M.Wright, A.D.Young, M.M.Young, P.T.Young, P.T.Young Jr., E.M.Davis, M.McAlpin, R.Sutton, E.W.Taylor. Also Miss Marianne Thomson -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Optical Society of America, Journal of the Optical Society of America, Volume 20, No. 6, June 1930, 06/1930
... Journal of the Optical Society of America, Volume 20, No. 6... Optical Society of America ...A printed journal contaiining the following contents: * Homochromatic Spectrophotometry in the Extreme Ultra-violet (George R. Harrison and Philip A. Leighton) * Parallax Panoramagrams Made Without Relative Movement of Lens, Grating or Sensitive Plate (Herbert E. Ives) * The Chromoliniscope Revisited (Herbert E. Ives) * Some Experiemtns in Mobile Color (G.A. Snook) Images include L.A. Jones, E.C. Crittenden, L.B. Tuckerman, Adolph Lamb, Paul D. Foote. Irvine C. Gardner, Arthur H. Compton. Paul E. Klopsteg. Edgar D. Tilver, Irwin G. Priest, F.K. Rightmyer, Bell System Telephones non-fictionoptical society of americal, e l.a. jones, e.c. crittenden, l.b. tuckerman, adolph lamb, paul d. foote. irvine c. gardner, arthur h. compton. paul e. klopsteg. edgar d. tilver, irwin g. priest, f.k. rightmyer, bell system telephones -
Federation University Historical Collection
Booklet, Ballarat School of Mines, Ballarat School Of Mines Agenda for meeting with Chairman of the TAFE Board, 07/1985
... of the TAFE Board...Ballarat School of Mines ...Yellow covered A$ booklet bound with plastic. The book as in agenda for a meeting with I. Predl, acting Chairman of the TAFE Board. Items for discussion were: * L.F.J. Hillman Recreation Building * Maintenance of Buildings * Campus titles and future development * Quality Improvements * College Management Study * Uncertainties Re Blackburn The booklet also includes an aerial photograph of the Ballarat School of Mines campus, including dates each building was erected. The image shows the site of the newly demolished Ballarat Gao, and still has a tennis court and Mining laboratory onsite. The book also show allotment plans of the Ballarat School of Mines site. -
Federation University Historical Collection
Booklet, State Savings Bank of Victoria, State Savings Bank of Victoria - Ballaarat Passbook for the School of Mines Science and Field Naturalists Club 1915-1917, 26/07/1915
... State Savings Bank of Victoria - Ballaarat Passbook for the...State Savings Bank of Victoria ...The State Savings Bank of Victoria was established in 1841. In 1915 the Ballaarat manager was J.P. Cooke.Light blue covered bankbook with red spine with the account number 128.155. It has two pages of deposits and payments. The Depositor was Charles Archibald Hoadley of the Ballarat School of Mines. state bank of victoria, state savings bank of victoria, ballarat science and field naturalists club, hoadley, charles hoadley -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat, Submission for the Accreditation of a Community Welfare and Development Certificate, 1978
... the Accreditation of a Community Welfare and Development...Ballarat School of Mines ...Course outline Yellow covered A4 book of 64 pagesballarat school of mines, community welfare -
Federation University Historical Collection
Booklet, Ballarat School of Mines, Ballarat School of Mines, Planning Proposal, The Creation of a Centre For Regional Development, 1979
... Ballarat School of Mines, Planning Proposal, The Creation...Ballarat School of Mines ...16 page A4 document on planning resources ballarat school of mines and industries, planning document, creation of a centre for regional development, tafe planning officer, planning proposal, planning resources -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Memorabilia, 60th anniversary of the end of World War 11, 2005 Memorabilia
... 60th anniversary of the end of World War 11, 2005...Dept. of Veterans Affairs ...Also contains photos from the warmemorabilias, australia -- armed forces -- history -
Wheen Bee Foundation
Publication, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Economic Analysis of the Australian Honey Industry (Bureau of Agricultural Economics), Canberra, 1984, 1984
... Economic Analysis of the Australian Honey Industry (Bureau...Bureau of Agricultural Economics ... -
Wheen Bee Foundation
Publication, Commonwealth of Australia, Forestry and Timber Bureau, Illustrations of the buds and fruits of Eucalyptus species with an alphabetical index (Forestry and Timber Bureau), Canberra, 1959, 1959
... Illustrations of the buds and fruits of Eucalyptus species...Commonwealth of Australia, Forestry and Timber Bureau ... -
Wheen Bee Foundation
Publication, House of Representatives standing committee on agriculture, fisheries and forestry, Discussion Paper; Future Development of the Australian Honey Bee Industry (House of Representatives standing committee on agriculture, fisheries and forestry), Canberra, 2007, 2007
... Discussion Paper; Future Development of the Australian...House of Representatives standing committee on agriculture ... -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Booklet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New Members of the Faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nov-56
... New Members of the Faculty, Massachusetts Institute of...Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...Professor John Ely Burchard was the Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at MIT. He was on a 3 month visit to Australia in 1951 as a guest of the Commonwealth government to help draw up a program for the The National Library of Australia in Canberra. He was authority on architecture and libraries. Robin Boyd met Professor Burchard at that time. Boyd was appointed the Bemis Visiting Professor at MIST 1956-57. This booklet includes a blurb and photo of Robin Boyd as Bemis Visiting Professor 1956-57, p4.The booklet contains a biography and photograph of Robin Boyd. Three loose articles are included inside.Three article clippings inside: (1) The Shape of An Architecture by John Ely Burchard, from Architectural Record, May 1937. (2) "Get an Honest Bricklayer!" The Scientists Answer to Ruskin" by Albert Bush-Brown, noted as reprinted from the Journal of Aesthetic and Art Criticism, Vol 16 No 3, March 1958. "Highest regards" signed Burchard written on front cover. (3) The City on the Hill by John Ely Burchard, stamp dated March 2nd 1957 from Michigan Alumnus Quarterly with card on front "With the compliments of John E. Burchard".massachusetts institute of technology, john ely burchard, albert bush-brown, bemis, kay fisker, eduardo catalano, marvin e goody, walsh st library -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Periodical, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Australian Aboriginal studies : journal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2007
... Australian Aboriginal studies : journal of the Australian...Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...1. The moral lexicon of the Warlpiri people of central Australia LR Hiatt This paper discusses words that match ?Good? and ?Bad?; examples of ?Good? and ?Bad? behaviour; morality and law; and egalitarianism and dominance. It also presents a comparison with Gidjingarli (Burarra). 2. Mobs and bosses: Structures of Aboriginal sociality Patrick Mullins (Mount Druitt, NSW) A commonality of Aboriginal social organisation exists across the continent in communities as different as those from the Western Desert across to Cape York, from the towns of New South Wales and Western Australia to cities like Adelaide. This is found in the colloquial expressions ?mob? and ?boss?, which are used in widely differing contexts. Mobbing is the activity where relatedness, in the sense of social alliances, is established and affirmed by virtue of a common affiliation with place, common experience and common descent, as well as by the exchange of cash and commodities. Bossing is the activity of commanding respect by virtue of one?s capacity to bestow items of value such as ritual knowledge, nurturance, care, cash and commodities. Mobbing and bossing are best understood as structures in Giddens? sense of sets of rules and resources involved in the production of social systems, in this case social alliances. Mobbing and bossing imply a concept of a person as a being in a relationship. Attention needs to be given to the way these structures interact with institutions in the wider Australian society. 3. Recognising victims without blaming them: A moral contest? About Peter Sutton?s ?The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Policy in Australia since the 1970s? and Gillian Cowlishaw?s replies Ma�a Ponsonnet (Universit� Paris- 8-Saint-Denis) Peter Sutton?s texts on Aboriginal violence, health and their politicisation are replied to using his methodology, and acknowledging his convincing points. Sutton rightly denounces a lack of lucidity and scientific objectivity in anthropological debates. These inadequacies impede identification of what Aboriginal groups can do to improve their situations for fear that this identification would lead to blame the victims. At the other end of the ethical spectrum, those who advocate a broader use of what I will call a ?resistance interpretation? of violence fail to recognise victims as such, on the implicit grounds that seeing victims as victims would deprive them of any agency, on the one hand, and entail blame, on the other hand. I aim to define a middle road between those views: the idea that victims should be acknowledged as such without being denied their agency and without being blamed for their own condition. This middle road allows identification of the colonisers? responsibilities in the contemporary situation of Indigenous communities in Australia, and to determine who can do what. Secondly, I show that Sutton?s texts convey, through subtle but recurrent remarks, an ideology of blame rather than a mere will to identify practical solutions. As a consequence, some of his proposals do not stand on a solid and objective causal analysis. 4. 'You would have loved her for her lore?: The letters of Daisy Bates Bob Reece (Murdoch University) Daisy Bates was once an iconic figure in Australia but her popular and academic reputation became tarnished by her retrograde views. Her credibility was also put in doubt through the exposure of her fictionalised Irish background. In more recent times, however, her ethnographic data on the Aborigines of Western Australia has been an invaluable source for Native Title claims, while her views on Aboriginal extinction, cannibalism and ?castes? are being seen as typical of her time. This article briefly reviews what has been the orthodox academic opinion of her scientific achievement before summarising what is reliably known of her early history and indicating what kind of person is revealed in the 3000 or more letters that she left behind. 5. What potential might Narrative Therapy have to assist Indigenous Australians reduce substance misuse? Violet Bacon (Curtin University of Technology) Substance misuse is associated with adverse consequences for many Australians including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Extensive research has been conducted into various intervention, treatment and prevention programs to ascertain their potential in reducing substance misuse within Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities. I explore the potential of Narrative Therapy as a counselling intervention for assisting Indigenous Australians reduce the harm associated with substance misuse. 6. Bone points from the Adelaide River, Northern Territory Sally Brockwell (University of Canberra) and Kim Akerman (Moonah) Large earth mounds located next to the vast floodplains of the lower Adelaide River, one of the major tropical rivers draining the flat coastal plains of northern Australia, contain cultural material, including bone points. The floodplains of the north underwent dynamic environmental change from extensive mangrove swamps in the mid-Holocene, through a transition phase of variable estuarine and freshwater mosaic environments, to the freshwater environment that exists today. This geomorphological framework provides a background for the interpretation of the archaeology, which spans some 4000 years. 7. A different look: Comparative rock-art recording from the Torres Strait using computer enhancement techniques Liam M Brady (Monash University) In 1888 and 1898, Cambridge University?s Alfred C Haddon made the first recording of rock-art from the Torres Strait islands using photography and sketches. Systematic recording of these same paintings and sites was carried out from 2000 to 2004 by archaeologists and Indigenous Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal communities as part of community-based rock-art recording projects. Computer enhancement techniques were used to identify differences between both sets of recordings, to reveal design elements that Haddon missed in his recordings, and to recover images recorded by Haddon that are today no longer visible to the naked eye. Using this data, preliminary observations into the antiquity of Torres Strait rock-art are noted along with recommendations for future Torres Strait region rock-art research and baseline monitoring projects. 8. Sources of bias in the Murray Black Collection: Implications for palaeopathological analysis Sarah Robertson (National Museum of Australia) The Murray Black collection of Aboriginal skeletal remains has been a mainstay of bio-anthropological research in Australia, but relatively little thought has been given to how and why this collection may differ from archaeologically obtained collections. The context in which remains were located and recovered has created bias within the sample, which was further skewed within the component of the collection sent to the Australian Institute of Anatomy, resulting in limitations for the research potential of the collection. This does not render all research on the collection unviable, but it demonstrates the importance of understanding the context of a skeletal collection when assessing its suitability for addressing specific research questions.maps, b&w photographs, colour photographs, illustrations, graphs, chartswarlpiri, sociology, daisy bates, substance abuse, narrative therapy, rock art, technology and art, murray black collection, pleistocene sites, watarrka plateau -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Periodical, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Australian Aboriginal studies : journal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2007
... Australian Aboriginal studies : journal of the Australian...Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...1. Musical and linguistic perspectives on Aboriginal song Allan Marett and Linda Barwick Song brings language and music together. Great singers are at once musicians and wordsmiths, who toss rhythm, melody and word against one another in complex cross-play. In this paper we outline some initial findings that are emerging from our interdisciplinary study of the musical traditions of the Cobourg region of western Arnhem Land, a coastal area situated in the far north of the Australian continent 350 kilometres northeast of Darwin. We focus on a set of songs called Jurtbirrk, sung in Iwaidja, a highly endangered language, whose core speaker base is now located in the community of Minjilang on Croker Island. We bring to bear analytical methodologies from both musicology and linguistics to illuminate this hitherto undocumented genre of love songs. 2. Iwaidja Jurtbirrk songs: Bringing language and music together Linda Barwick (University of Sydney), Bruce Birch and Nicholas Evans (University of Melbourne) Song brings language and music together. Great singers are at once musicians and wordsmiths, who toss rhythm, melody and word against one another in complex cross-play. In this paper we outline some initial findings that are emerging from our interdisciplinary study of the musical traditions of the Cobourg region of western Arnhem Land, a coastal area situated in the far north of the Australian continent 350 kilometres northeast of Darwin. We focus on a set of songs called Jurtbirrk, sung in Iwaidja, a highly endangered language, whose core speaker base is now located in the community of Minjilang on Croker Island. We bring to bear analytical methodologies from both musicology and linguistics to illuminate this hitherto undocumented genre of love songs. 3. Morrdjdjanjno ngan-marnbom story nakka, ?songs that turn me into a story teller?: The morrdjdjanjno of western Arnhem Land Murray Garde (University of Melbourne) Morrdjdjanjno is the name of a song genre from the Arnhem Land plateau in the Top End of the Northern Territory and this paper is a first description of this previously undocumented song tradition. Morrdjdjanjno are songs owned neither by individuals or clans, but are handed down as ?open domain? songs with some singers having knowledge of certain songs unknown to others. Many morrdjdjanjno were once performed as part of animal increase rituals and each song is associated with a particular animal species, especially macropods. Sung only by men, they can be accompanied by clap sticks alone or both clap sticks and didjeridu. First investigations reveal that the song texts are not in everyday speech but include, among other things, totemic referential terms for animals which are exclusive to morrdjdjanjno. Translations from song language into ordinary register speech can often be ?worked up? when the song texts are discussed in their cultural and performance context. The transmission of these songs is severely endangered at present as there are only two known singers remaining both of whom are elderly. 4. Sung and spoken: An analysis of two different versions of a Kun-barlang love song Isabel O?Keeffe (nee Bickerdike) (University of Melbourne) In examining a sung version and a spoken version of a Kun-barlang love song text recorded by Alice Moyle in 1962, I outline the context and overall structure of the song, then provide a detailed comparative analysis of the two versions. I draw some preliminary conclusions about the nature of Kun-barlang song language, particularly in relation to the rhythmic setting of words in song texts and the use of vocables as structural markers. 5. Simplifying musical practice in order to enhance local identity: Rhythmic modes in the Walakandha wangga (Wadeye, Northern Territory) Allan Marett (University of Sydney) Around 1982, senior performers of the Walakandha wangga, a repertory of song and dance from the northern Australian community of Wadeye (Port Keats), made a conscious decision to simplify their complex musical and dance practice in order to strengthen the articulation of a group identity in ceremonial performance. Recordings from the period 1972?82 attest to a rich diversity of rhythmic modes, each of which was associated with a different style of dance. By the mid-1980s, however, this complexity had been significantly reduced. I trace the origin of the original complexity, explore the reasons why this was subsequently reduced, and trace the resultant changes in musical practice. 6. ?Too long, that wangga?: Analysing wangga texts over time Lysbeth Ford (University of Sydney) For the past forty or so years, Daly region song-men have joined with musicologists and linguists to document their wangga songs. This work has revealed a corpus of more than one hundred wangga songs composed in five language varieties Within this corpus are a few wangga texts recorded with their prose versions. I compare sung and spoken texts in an attempt to show not only what makes wangga texts consistently different from prose texts, but also how the most recent wangga texts differ from those composed some forty years ago. 7. Flesh with country: Juxtaposition and minimal contrast in the construction and melodic treatment of jadmi song texts Sally Treloyn (University of Sydney) For some time researchers of Centralian-style songs have found that compositional and performance practices that guide the construction and musical treatment of song texts have a broader social function. Most recently, Barwick has identified an ?aesthetics of parataxis or juxtaposition? in the design of Warumungu song texts and musical organisation (as well as visual arts and dances), that mirrors social values (such as the skin system) and forms 'inductive space' in which relationships between distinct classes of being, places, and groups of persons are established. Here I set out how juxtaposition and minimal contrast in the construction and melodic treatment of jadmi-type junba texts from the north and north-central Kimberley region similarly create 'inductive space' within which living performers, ancestral beings, and the country to which they are attached, are drawn into dynamic, contiguous relationships. 8. The poetics of central Australian Aboriginal song Myfany Turpin (University of Sydney) An often cited feature of traditional songs from Central Australia (CA songs) is the obfuscation of meaning. This arises partly from the difficulties of translation and partly from the difficulties in identifying words in song. The latter is the subject of this paper, where I argue it is a by-product of adhering to the requirements of a highly structured art form. Drawing upon a set of songs from the Arandic language group, I describe the CA song as having three independent obligatory components (text, rhythm and melody) and specify how text is set to rhythm within a rhythmic and a phonological constraint. I show how syllable counting, for the purposes of text setting, reflects a feature of the Arandic sound system. The resultant rhythmic text is then set to melody while adhering to a pattern of text alliteration. 9. Budutthun ratja wiyinymirri: Formal flexibility in the Yol?u manikay tradition and the challenge of recording a complete repertoire Aaron Corn (University of Sydney) with Neparr? a Gumbula (University of Sydney) Among the Yol?u (people) of north-eastern Arnhem Land, manikay (song) series serve as records of sacred relationships between humans, country and ancestors. Their formal structures constitute the overarching order of all ceremonial actions, and their lyrics comprise sacred esoteric lexicons held nowhere else in the Yol?u languages. A consummate knowledge of manikay and its interpenetrability with ancestors, country, and parallel canons of sacred y�ku (names), bu?gul (dances) and miny'tji (designs) is an essential prerequisite to traditional leadership in Yol?u society. Drawing on our recordings of the Baripuy manikay series from 2004 and 2005, we explore the aesthetics and functions of formal flexibility in the manikay tradition. We examine the individuation of lyrical realisations among singers, and the role of rhythmic modes in articulating between luku (root) and bu?gul'mirri (ceremonial) components of repertoire. Our findings will contribute significantly to intercultural understandings of manikay theory and aesthetics, and the centrality of manikay to Yol?u intellectual traditions. 10. Australian Aboriginal song language: So many questions, so little to work with Michael Walsh Review of the questions related to the analysis of Aboriginal song language; requirements for morpheme glossing, component package, interpretations, prose and song text comparison, separation of Indigenous and ethnographic explanations, candour about collection methods, limitations and interpretative origins.maps, colour photographs, tablesyolgnu, wadeye, music and culture -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Periodical, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Australian Aboriginal studies : journal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2008
... Australian Aboriginal studies : journal of the Australian...Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...1. Rock-art of the Western Desert and Pilbara: Pigment dates provide new perspectives on the role of art in the Australian arid zone Jo McDonald (Australian National University) and Peter Veth (Australian National University) Systematic analysis of engraved and painted art from the Western Desert and Pilbara has allowed us to develop a spatial model for discernable style provinces. Clear chains of stylistic connection can be demonstrated from the Pilbara coast to the desert interior with distinct and stylistically unique rock-art bodies. Graphic systems appear to link people over short, as well as vast, distances, and some of these style networks appear to have operated for very long periods of time. What are the social dynamics that could produce unique style provinces, as well as shared graphic vocabularies, over 1000 kilometres? Here we consider language boundaries within and between style provinces, and report on the first dates for pigment rock-art from the Australian arid zone and reflect on how these dates from the recent past help address questions of stylistic variability through space and time. 2. Painting and repainting in the west Kimberley Sue O?Connor, Anthony Barham (Australian National University) and Donny Woolagoodja (Mowanjum Community, Derby) We take a fresh look at the practice of repainting, or retouching, rockart, with particular reference to the Kimberley region of Western Australia. We discuss the practice of repainting in the context of the debate arising from the 1987 Ngarinyin Cultural Continuity Project, which involved the repainting of rock-shelters in the Gibb River region of the western Kimberley. The ?repainting debate? is reviewed here in the context of contemporary art production in west Kimberley Indigenous communities, such as Mowanjum. At Mowanjum the past two decades have witnessed an artistic explosion in the form of paintings on canvas and board that incorporate Wandjina and other images inspired by those traditionally depicted on panels in rock-shelters. Wandjina also represents the key motif around which community desires to return to Country are articulated, around which Country is curated and maintained, and through which the younger generations now engage with their traditional lands and reach out to wider international communities. We suggest that painting in the new media represents a continuation or transference of traditional practice. Stories about the travels, battles and engagements of Wandjina and other Dreaming events are now retold and experienced in the communities with reference to the paintings, an activity that is central to maintaining and reinvigorating connection between identity and place. The transposition of painting activity from sites within Country to the new ?out-of-Country? settlements represents a social counterbalance to the social dislocation that arose from separation from traditional places and forced geographic moves out-of-Country to government and mission settlements in the twentieth century. 3. Port Keats painting: Revolution and continuity Graeme K Ward (AIATSIS) and Mark Crocombe (Thamarrurr Regional Council) The role of the poet and collector of ?mythologies?, Roland Robinson, in prompting the production of commercial bark-painting at Port Keats (Wadeye), appears to have been accepted uncritically - though not usually acknowledged - by collectors and curators. Here we attempt to trace the history of painting in the Daly?Fitzmaurice region to contextualise Robinson?s contribution, and to evaluate it from both the perspective of available literature and of accounts of contemporary painters and Traditional Owners in the Port Keats area. It is possible that the intervention that Robinson might have considered revolutionary was more likely a continuation of previously well established cultural practice, the commercial development of which was both an Indigenous ?adjustment? to changing socio-cultural circumstances, and a quiet statement of maintenance of identity by strong individuals adapting and attempting to continue their cultural traditions. 4. Negotiating form in Kuninjku bark-paintings Luke Taylor (AIATSIS) Here I examine social processes involved in the manipulation of painted forms of bark-paintings among Kuninjku artists living near Maningrida in Arnhem Land. Young artists are taught to paint through apprenticeships that involve exchange of skills in producing form within extended family groups. Through apprenticeship processes we can also see how personal innovations are shared among family and become more regionally located. Lately there have been moves by senior artists to establish separate out-stations and to train their wives and daughters to paint. At a stylistic level the art now creates a greater sense of family autonomy and yet the subjects link the artists back in to much broader social networks. 5. Making art and making culture in far western New South Wales Lorraine Gibson This contribution is based on my ethnographic fieldwork. It concerns the intertwining aspects of the two concepts of art and culture and shows how Aboriginal people in Wilcannia in far western New South Wales draw on these concepts to assert and create a distinctive cultural identity for themselves. Focusing largely on the work of one particular artist, I demonstrate the ways in which culture (as this is considered) is affectively experienced and articulated as something that one ?comes into contact with? through the practice of art-making. I discuss the social and cultural role that art-making, and art talk play in considering, mediating and resolving issues to do with cultural subjectivity, authority and identity. I propose that in thinking about the content of the art and in making the art, past and present matters of interest, of difficulty and of pleasure are remembered, considered, resolved and mediated. Culture (as this is considered by Wilcannia Aboriginal people) is also made anew; it comes about through the practice of artmaking and in displaying and talking about the art work. Culture as an objectified, tangible entity is moreover writ large and made visible through art in ways that are valued by artists and other community members. The intersections between Aboriginal peoples, anthropologists, museum collections and published literature, and the network of relations between, are also shown to have interesting synergies that play themselves out in the production of art and culture. 6. Black on White: Or varying shades of grey? Indigenous Australian photo-media artists and the ?making of? Aboriginality Marianne Riphagen (Radboud University, The Netherlands) In 2005 the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne presented the Indigenous photo-media exhibition Black on White. Promising to explore Indigenous perspectives on non-Aboriginality, its catalogue set forth two questions: how do Aboriginal artists see the people and culture that surrounds them? Do they see non-Aboriginal Australians as other? However, art works produced for this exhibition rejected curatorial constructions of Black and White, instead presenting viewers with more complex and ambivalent notions of Aboriginality and non-Aboriginality. This paper revisits the Black on White exhibition as an intercultural event and argues that Indigenous art practitioners, because of their participation in a process to signify what it means to be Aboriginal, have developed new forms of Aboriginality. 7. Culture production Rembarrnga way: Innovation and tradition in Lena Yarinkura?s and Bob Burruwal?s metal sculptures Christiane Keller (University of Westerna Australia) Contemporary Indigenous artists are challenged to produce art for sale and at the same time to protect their cultural heritage. Here I investigate how Rembarrnga sculptors extend already established sculptural practices and the role innovation plays within these developments, and I analyse how Rembarrnga artists imprint their cultural and social values on sculptures made in an essentially Western medium, that of metal-casting. The metal sculptures made by Lena Yarinkura and her husband Bob Burruwal, two prolific Rembarrnga artists from north-central Arnhem Land, can be seen as an extension of their earlier sculptural work. In the development of metal sculptures, the artists shifted their artistic practice in two ways: they transformed sculptural forms from an earlier ceremonial context and from earlier functional fibre objects. Using Fred Myers?s concept of culture production, I investigate Rembarrnga ways of culture-making. 8. 'How did we do anything without it?': Indigenous art and craft micro-enterprise use and perception of new media technology.maps, colour photographs, b&w photographswest kimberley, rock art, kuninjku, photo media, lena yarinkura, bob burruwal, new media technology -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Periodical, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Australian Aboriginal studies : journal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2008
... Australian Aboriginal studies : journal of the Australian...Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...Mawul Rom Project: Openness, obligation and reconciliation Morgan Brigg (Universtiy of Queensland) and Anke Tonnaer (University of Aarhus, Denmark) Aboriginal Australian initiatives to restore balanced relationships with White Australians have recently become part of reconciliation efforts. This paper provides a contextualised report on one such initiative, the Mawul Rom crosscultural mediation project. Viewing Mawul Rom as a diplomatic venture in the lineage of adjustment and earlier Rom rituals raises questions about receptiveness, individual responsibility and the role of Indigenous ceremony in reconciliation efforts. Yolngu ceremonial leaders successfully draw participants into relationship and personally commit them to the tasks of cross-cultural advocacy and reconciliation. But Mawul Rom must also negotiate a paradox because emphasis on the cultural difference of ceremony risks increasing the very social distance that the ritual attempts to confront. Managing this tension will be a key challenge if Mawul Rom is to become an effective diplomatic mechanism for cross-cultural conflict resolution and reconciliation. Living in two camps: the strategies Goldfields Aboriginal people use to manage in the customary economy and the mainstream economy at the same time Howard Sercombe (Strathclyde University, Glasgow) The economic sustainability of Aboriginal households has been a matter of public concern across a range of contexts. This research, conducted in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia, shows how economically successful Aboriginal persons manage ?dual economic engagement?, or involvement in the customary economy and the mainstream economy at the same time. The two economies sometimes reinforce each other but are more often in conflict, and management of conflicting obligations requires high degrees of skill and innovation. As well as creating financially sustainable households, the participants contributed significantly to the health of their extended families and communities. The research also shows that many Aboriginal people, no matter what their material and personal resources, are conscious of how fragile and unpredictable their economic lives can be, and that involvement in the customary economy is a kind of mutual insurance to guarantee survival if times get tough. Indigenous population data for evaluation and performance measurement: A cautionary note Gaminiratne Wijesekere (Dept. of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Canberra) I outline the status of population census counts for Indigenous peoples, identifying information on Indigenous births and deaths, and internal migration estimates. I comment on the ?experimental? Indigenous population projections and question the rationale for having two sets of projections. Program managers and evaluators need to be mindful of limitations of the data when using these projections for monitoring, evaluating and measuring Indigenous programs. Reaching out to a younger generation using a 3D computer game for storytelling: Vincent Serico?s legacy Theodor G Wyeld (Flinders University, Adeliade) and Brett Leavy (CyberDreaming Australia) Sadly, Vincent Serico (1949?2008), artist, activist and humanist, recently passed away. Born in southern Queensland in Wakka Wakka/Kabi Kabi Country (Carnarvon Gorge region) in 1949, Vincent was a member of the Stolen Generations. He was separated from his family by White administration at four years of age. He grew up on the Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve in the 1950s, when the policies of segregation and assimilation were at their peak. Only returning to his Country in his early forties, Vincent started painting his stories and the stories that had been passed on to him about the region. These paintings manifest Vincent?s sanctity for tradition, storytelling, language, spirit and beliefs. A team of researchers was honoured and fortunate to have worked closely with Vincent to develop a 3D simulation of his Country using a 3D computer game toolkit. Embedded in this simulation of his Country, in the locations that their stories speak to, are some of Vincent?s important contemporary art works. They are accompanied by a narration of Vincent?s oral history about the places, people and events depicted. Vincent was deeply concerned about members of the younger generation around him ?losing their way? in modern times. In a similar vein, Brett Leavy (Kooma) sees the 3D game engine as an opportunity to engage the younger generation in its own cultural heritage in an activity that capitalises on a common pastime. Vincent was an enthusiastic advocate of this approach. Working in consultation with Vincent and the research team, CyberDreaming developed a simulation of Vincent?s Country for young Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal persons from the Carnarvon Gorge region to explore Vincent?s life stories of the region. The use of Vincent?s contemporary paintings as storyboards provides a traditional medium for the local people to interactively re-engage with traditional values. Called Serico?s World, it represents a legacy to his life?s works, joys and regrets. Here we discuss the background to this project and Vincent?s contribution. A singular beeswax representation of Namarrkon, the Lightning Man, from western Arnhem Land RG Gunn (La Trobe University) and RL Whear (Jawoyn Association) Samples from a beeswax representation of Namarrkon, the Lightning Man, from western Arnhem Land were analysed for radiocarbon and dated to be about 150 years old. An underlying beeswax figure was found to be approximately 1100 years old. The Dreaming Being Namarrkon is well known throughout Arnhem Land, although his sphere of activity is concentrated around the northern half of the Arnhem Land plateau. Namarrkon is well represented in rock-paintings in this area and continues to be well represented in contemporary canvas-paintings by artists from the broader plateau region. We conclude that representations of Namarrkon in both painted and beeswax forms appear to be parallel manifestations of the late Holocene regionalisation of Arnhem Land. ?Missing the point? or ?what to believe ? the theory or the data?: Rationales for the production of Kimberley points Kim Akerman (Moonah) In a recent article, Rodney Harrison presented an interesting view on the role glass Kimberley points played in the lives of the Aborigines who made and used them. Harrison employed ethnographic and historical data to argue that glass Kimberley points were not part of the normal suite of post-contact artefacts used primarily for hunting and fighting or Indigenous exchange purposes, but primarily were created to service a non-Indigenous market for aesthetically pleasing artefacts. Harrison asserted that this market determined the form that these points took. A critical analysis of the data does not substantiate either of these claims. Here I do not deal with Harrison?s theoretical material or arguments; I focus on the ethnographic and historical material that he has either omitted or failed to appreciate in developing his thesis and which, in turn, renders it invalid. The intensity of raw material utilisation as an indication of occupational history in surface stone artefact assemblages from the Strathbogie Ranges, central Victoria Justin Ian Shiner (La Trobe University, Bundoora) Stone artefact assemblages are a major source of information on past human?landscape relationships throughout much of Australia. These relationships are not well understood in the Strathbogie Ranges of central Victoria, where few detailed analyses of stone artefact assemblages have been undertaken. The purpose of this paper is to redress this situation through the analysis of two surface stone artefact assemblages recorded in early 2000 during a wider investigation of the region?s potential for postgraduate archaeological fieldwork. Analysis of raw material utilisation is used to assess the characteristics of the occupational histories of two locations with similar landscape settings. The analysis indicates variability in the intensity of raw material use between the assemblages, which suggests subtle differences in the occupational history of each location. The results of this work provide a direction for future stone artefact studies within this poorly understood region.document reproductions, maps, b&w photographs, colour photographskimberley, mawul rom project, 3d computer game, storytelling, vincent serico, beeswax, namarrkon, artefact assemblages, strathbogie ranges, groote eylandt, budd billy ii